OpinionAmerican Colleges Have Priced Themselves Out of Their MissionBy Aaron ColePublished April 16, 2026 at 3:00 pm EDT · 6 min readWhen I graduated from college in 1998, tuition was $23,000.OpinionEducationCollegeAaron ColeOpinion columnist and editorial board member at AVA Journals.More from OpinionOpinionThe Real Cost of America's Housing CrisisAaron Cole · 3d agoOpinionWhy We Gave Our Kids the Worst Digital Childhood in HistoryAaron Cole · 3d agoOpinionThe Slow Death of Local News Is a National EmergencyAaron Cole · 5d ago